Industry Quote by Ronan Farrow

For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground.

— Clive Owen

You have to tell a story before you can sell a story.

— Beth Comstock

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are…

— Lester Holt

You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading. It could be…

— Marcia Clark

A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than…

— Matt Drudge

They say a story loses something with each telling.

— Cecelia Ahern

While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes…

— Pat Brown

“Stories which have failed either to become popular folk lore or to be embalmed in old newspaper files are in great danger of oblivion.…

— Ruby Elhult

I once started a detective story to make money—but I couldn't get the murder to take place! At the end of three chapters I…

— Mary McCarthy

“Storytelling instead of info dumping is a fairly well-known life hack, but there are still very few people who tell stories instead of facts.”

— Kameron Hurley

“When it happens to you it's a national tragedy— Why aren't the papers reporting this? you wonder. Only when it happens to someone else…

— David Sedaris

I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper.

— David Grann